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Programming Tips

Ajmal FarzamSeptember 19, 2019 0

Using Python to run jobs in your SAS Grid

One of the features of SAS Grid Manager (and SAS Grid Manager for Platform) introduced in SAS 9.4 M6 is the capability for the grid provider software to handle open-source workloads in addition to traditional SAS jobs. In this post, we’ll take a look at the steps required to get your SAS Grid Manager environment set up to utilize this functionality, and we’ll demonstrate the process of submitting Python code for execution in the SAS Grid.

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanSeptember 16, 2019 0

How to retrieve contents of a SAS® Scalable Performance Data Server library

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, life can surprise you in a big way, making you wonder what else you've missed. That is what happened when I recently had a chance to work with the SAS® Scalable Performance Data Server, a product that's been around a while, but

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerAugust 19, 2019 0

A skeptic's guide to statistics in the media

News outlets share stats and graphs that they source from public data. It takes data literacy skills to critique the stats you see, and investigate more.

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 11, 2019 0

Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON

This blog post could be subtitled "To Catch a Thief" or maybe "Go ahead. Steal this blog. I dare you."* That's because I've used this technique several times to catch and report other web sites who lift the blog content from blogs.sas.com and present it as their own. Syndicating blog

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Martin MinceyMarch 15, 2019 0

How to view or create ODS output without causing SAS® to stop responding or run slowly

SAS makes it easy for you to create a large amount of procedure output with very few statements. However, when you create a large amount of procedure output with the Output Delivery System (ODS), your SAS session might stop responding or run slowly. In some cases, SAS generates a “Not

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeMarch 6, 2019 0

Getting started with SAS Containers

As of December 2018, any customer with a valid SAS Viya order is able to package and deploy their SAS Viya software in Docker containers. SAS has provided a fully documented and supported project (or “recipe”) for easily building these containers. So how can you start? You can simply stop

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Learn SAS

Mark StevensFebruary 13, 2019 0

New Performance-Based Certification: Write SAS Code During Your Exam

SAS has worked with our exam delivery partners to integrate a live lab into an exam, which can be delivered anywhere, anytime, on-demand.

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Learn SAS

Suzanne MorgenJanuary 22, 2019 0

Secrets from a SAS Expert: An Interview with Leonid Batkhan

You’re probably already familiar with Leonid Batkhan from his popular blog right here on The Learning Post. In fact, he’s one of our most engaging authors, with thousands of views and hundreds of comments. Leonid is a true SAS Sensei. He has been at SAS for nearly 25 years and

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SAS Administrators

Edoardo RivaJanuary 22, 2019 0

Native scheduler, new types of workloads, and more: introducing the new SAS Grid Manager

You'll notice several changes in SAS Grid Manager with the release of SAS 9.4M6. This post gives a brief architectural description of the new SAS grid provider, including all major components and their role.

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJanuary 17, 2019 0

Using built-in Git operations in SAS

SAS supports direct integration for Git from Base SAS (via functions), SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio, and SAS Data Integration Studio. Read this article to learn how to use Git more effectively in your SAS processes.

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Learn SAS

Gerhard SvolbaJanuary 10, 2019 0

Favorite SAS Press books from a SAS Press author

Does this situation sound familiar? You have a complex analysis that must be finished urgently. The data was delivered late and its quality and structure are far from the expected standard. The time pressure to present the results is huge, and your SAS program is not giving you the expected

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerDecember 20, 2018 0

Five SAS programming language features you should be using

Good news -- the SAS program that you wrote and put into production 10 years ago still works. Hey, it's SAS, so you probably take that for granted. But are those techniques from 2008 still the best way to accomplish your task? SAS 9.4, first released in 2013 and now

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Kim WilsonDecember 13, 2018 0

FAQs about SAS dates, arrays and managing local PC files

Every so often, SAS Technical Support highlights questions that come in on a regular basis. This is one of those times. Here Kim Wilson describes answers to questions covering SAS dates, arrays, and how to reference local PC files from SAS® Enterprise Guide® and SAS® Studio when those applications connect to a SAS® server in UNIX operating environments.

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Learn SAS

Ken GahaganNovember 7, 2018 0

3 questions about implementing SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya

Migration, version road maps and configurations were the themes of several questions that came up in a recent webinar about combining SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya. This blog post gives the answers.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Joe FurbeeOctober 31, 2018 0

Using SAS Viya REST APIs to access images from SAS Visual Analytics

This article is the first in a series of three publications covering REST APIs and their use in, and with SAS. Today, I want to cover a basic example using SAS Viya REST APIs to download an image from a report in SAS Visual Analytics.

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Data Visualization

Julián LitmanOctober 2, 2018 0

Creación de polígonos personalizados en SAS Visual Analytics

En los últimos años, con el creciente volumen de datos sobre localización provenientes de smartphones, Smart Watches y sensores, el interés por el análisis basado en la ubicación se ha expandido a todas las industrias. Como resultado, muchos de nuestros clientes nos preguntan cómo crear mapas regionales o polígonos personalizados

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Data for Good | Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerSeptember 17, 2018 0

Essential SAS tools to bring to your next hackathon

To succeed in any data-focused hackathon, you need a robust set of tools and skills – as well as a can-do attitude. Here's what you can expect from any hackathon: Messy data. It might come from a variety of sources, and won't necessarily be organized for analytics or reporting. That's

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerAugust 28, 2018 0

Manage the current directory within your SAS program

Using relative file paths in your SAS programs? Use the new DLGCDIR function to manage your SAS working directory -- even in SAS Enterprise Guide or SAS Studio -- to ensure your programs are working the way they ought to.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Kathryn McLawhornJuly 19, 2018 0

Keeping the top frequency count (n) for each character variable in a SAS data set

Which character variables have the highest frequency count? You can easily determine this using a variety of procedures that calculate frequency count. For example, the FREQ Procedure or the MEANS Procedure. This blog post illustrates this process through two examples.

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Risk Management

Peter PlochanJuly 6, 2018 0

Enterprise Model Risk Management: Eine ganzheitliche Sicht ist entscheidend!

Model Risk Management (MRM) ist im Grunde nichts Neues: Finanzinstitute nutzen seit Jahrzehnten Modelle für ihre Entscheidungsfindung. Seit Kurzem jedoch ist das MRM formalisierter und strenger. Regulatorische Anforderungen – zum Beispiel die gezielte Überprüfung interner Modelle (kurz: TRIM) der Europäischen Bankenaufsichtsbehörde (EBA) – nehmen Banken in die Pflicht, die Compliance

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Allison SaitoJune 18, 2018 0

Changing font size in SAS

When making a new piece of code, I like to use the smallest font I can read. This lets me fit more text on the screen at once. When presenting code to others, especially in a classroom setting, I like to make the font large enough to see from the back of the room. Here’s how I change font size in SAS in our three programming interfaces.

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Lexi HawksJune 1, 2018 0

Is there a “Big Red Button” to use The SAS Platform?

For software users and SAS administrators, the question of how to streamline their approach into the easiest to use system that most effectively completes the task at hand. At SAS Global Forum 2018, the topic of a “Big Red Button” for the SAS Platform was an idea that got audience members excited. Here's a review of that talk.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Martin MinceyMay 18, 2018 0

How to change your working directory for SAS® with the DLGCDIR DATA step function

Learn how to change your working directory for SAS. Beginning with SAS® 9.4 TS1M4, you can use a new DATA step function, DLGCDIR, to change the location of your working directory.

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Analytics | Data Management

Metadatenanalyse

GastbeitragApril 27, 2018 0

6 kostenfreie Tools: Soforthilfe für SAS Administratoren und Metadatenspezialisten

In seinem Gastbeitrag stellt Metacoda sechs nützliche kostenfreie Tools zur Metadatenanalyse vor. SAS Platform-Administratoren, die mit der SAS Management Console arbeiten, kennen die potenziellen Hürden beim Thema Metadatenanalyse und beim Zugriff auf Coding-Benutzeroberflächen. Aber diesen Herausforderungen ist nun dank Metacoda beizukommen – mit sechs kostenfreien Tools. 1. Metadata Explorer

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Learn SAS

Chip WellsMarch 23, 2018 0

SAS introduces the blended classroom

We all have different learning styles. Some learn best by seeing and doing; others by listening to lectures in a traditional classroom; still others simply by diving in and asking questions along the way. Traditional face-to-face classroom instruction, real-time classes over the Internet, or self-paced instruction with exercises, SAS Education

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Learn SAS

Sian RobertsFebruary 19, 2018 0

Six new SAS books for 2018

Start off the New Year by brushing up your SAS programming skills! Begin your goal to become SAS certified or explore these New SAS books and other SAS Press titles, many of which will be making their bookshelf debut at SAS® Global Forum 2018 in Denver, CO! Want to be notified when a new book

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersFebruary 14, 2018 0

SAS Viya 3.3 - Some Kerberos principles

In this article, I will set out clear principles for how SAS Viya 3.3 will interoperate with Kerberos. My aim is to present some overview concepts for how we can use Kerberos authentication with SAS Viya 3.3. We will look at both SAS Viya 3.3 clients and SAS 9.4M5 clients.

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Naohiro Takemura (竹村尚大)January 26, 2018 0

SAS OnDemand for Academics 授業利用では使用できる製品が追加されます

前回、SAS OnDemand for Academics (SODA) の Course 機能を活用することで、授業準備の手間が軽減されることをご紹介しましたが、実は、Cource 登録にはもう一つのメリットがあります。 SODA は、SAS Studioを基本のインターフェイスとしていますが、Course 登録により使用できる製品が増えます。 SAS Enterprise Guide : ポイント&クリック操作によるWindowsアプリケーション SAS Enterprise Miner : GUIによるデータマイニング・ツール SAS Forecast Server : 時系列予測の自動作成ツールこれらは、統計の学習よりも、実際のビジネス等の現場で素早く統計手法を適用するためのツールで、基礎を学習した上で、より応用に際して活用できるものです。

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Juthika KharghariaJanuary 25, 2018 0

Using PROC ASTORE to override scoring decisions in SAS® Viya®

If you have worked with the different types of score code generated by the high-performance modeling nodes in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ 14.1, you have probably come across the Analytic Store (or ASTORE) file type for scoring. The ASTOREfile type works very well for scoring complex machine learning models like random

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 25, 2018 0

Let SAS write batch scripts for you

If Necessity is the mother of Invention, then, perhaps, the father of Automation is Laziness. Automation is all about convenience, comfort, and productivity. Why do it yourself if you can devise something to do it for you! In my previous post Running SAS programs in batch under Unix/Linux, we learned

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